Peter Philip Harris (19 December 1925 – 2 January 2003) was a

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played for

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

in the 1940s and 1950s. Harris was an

outside right Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...

, and he played a crucial role in Pompey's Football league title-winning sides of 1948–49 and 1949–50. He made 479 Football League appearances for Portsmouth, scoring 194 goals. Only the competition from

Stanley Matthews Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer who played as an outside right. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the British game, he is the only player to have been knighted while sti ...

and

Tom Finney Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of the s ...

, in an era before substitutions were introduced to the game, prevented Harris earning more than two caps for the

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. He made his England debut against

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in a 2–0 defeat in September 1949.

Career statistics

Source: Pompeyrama

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